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Mirabilis alipes
Winged four o'clock is a perennial wildflower native to dry brush, woodland and mountain slopes of the southwestern US. It forms a low clump with magenta flowers and grows best in full sun with very little water.
Mirabilis alipes is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common name winged four o'clock. It is native to the southwestern United States from eastern California to western Colorado, where it grows in brush, woodland, and dry mountain slope habitat. It is a perennial herb growing in a clump near 40 centimetres (15+3⁄4 in) tall and up to 80 centimetres (31+1⁄2 in) wide. The leaves are oppositely arranged on the spreading stem branches. Each fleshy leaf has an oval or rounded blade up to 7 to 9 centimetres (2+3⁄4 to 3+1⁄2 in) long and is hairless or sparsely hairy. The flowers occur in leaf axils on the upper branches. Five to nine flowers bloom from a cup-shaped involucre of several partly fused bracts. Each five-lobed flower is about 1.5 centimetres (5⁄8 in) wide and magenta in color; cream-colored flowers are also known.
Scarlet four o'clock · Mauka · Marvel of Peru · Desert wishbone-bush · Sweet four o'clock · Colorado four o'clock · Heartleaf four o'clock · Four o'clock
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mirabilis alipes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
